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The Tension is Growing Hotter

[previous round]

Wow. Just wow. What a tense game I just had!

For the last 12 moves of the game I had 1 minute or less on my clock, essentially playing my moves off a five second time delay (not increment), and writing the moves down. At the end I had 10 of my seconds left.

 

Sorry that I am so overwhelmed that I lack the eloquence to share the feeling of such an experience.

It was so hard to calculate such a complex and tactical position with no time on the clock, and because I had sacrificed material I had to find something or I'd be losing. So hard. The next round starts soon (tomorrow morning), so I don't have time to enter a fraction of the variations I calculated in that while attacking position.

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Comments


  • 7 months ago

    James_Bond

    good game! well done David.

  • 7 months ago

    Phelon

    Way to go David! Now I see how you got that 2700+ tactics trainer rating. Keep that incredible focus you got going and make sure you recover fully before the next round.

  • 7 months ago

    RuralRob

    From the standpoint of time-trouble strategy or difficulty, does it make any difference if the 5 seconds per move is a delay instead of an increment?

    "Sorry that I am so overwhelmed that I lack the eloquence to share the feeling of such an experience."

    Chess.com needs to hire Sergei Shipov to help annotate your games!  Laughing

  • 7 months ago

    IM dpruess

    the tournament is 40/2, 20/1, and then an additional 30 min to end the game. with a 5 second delay throughout. so yeah, my opponent and I used bad time management during the weird phase where my queen was dancing on the fourth rank and we were trying to figure out what was going to happen.

    summersiron, as i said, i calculated *way more* than what i had time to enter into that game board. ;-)

  • 7 months ago

    SummersIron

    Ridiculously complicated position at some stages. Strong attacking play, especially if you really were calculating all those variations at once.

  • 7 months ago

    Mm40

    momohime88, I'm guessing that, because this is a typical American weekend swiss, it's 2 hours for 40 moves, than an hour after that, with a 5 second delay throughout.

  • 7 months ago

    DENVERHIGH

  • 7 months ago

    RetGuvvie98

    nice game, thanks for sharing it with us.  enjoyed the tactical shots through it.

  • 7 months ago

    Lawdoginator

    Wow! Nice scramble. It looks like you're in fine form. 

  • 7 months ago

    Educated_Fool88

    I bet that is how your face was when you playing this game >>> Sealed

    Solid game BTW !! What is the total time for this game for average minutes/moves?

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